Charles meets Colonel Markland in New Orleans before an urgent summons takes him to Washington to see President Grant. Uneasy but pressured into it, Charles accepts a mission with multiple targets, including orders to eliminate a Spaniard reviving Southern revolt who, he learns, owns most of the land around Atlanta. Charles devises an ingenious solution.
Charles returns his family to Philadelphia, then heads to New Orleans to meet Colonel Markland. Charles receives an urgent request to travel to Washington to visit President Grant. President Grant has a request that Charles is very uncomfortable with, but he is pressured into taking the job. Charles’ next mission involves multiple targets, and Charles comes up with an ingenious solution. Charles is ordered by President Grant to eliminate a Spaniard who is here to revive the revolt against the north. Charles discovers that the man he’s ordered to kill also owns most of the land around Atlanta. Charles sets about finding wolf dogs for Benson and Clydesdales for the San Francisco farm.
